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Perez Hilton is on the mend after spending 21 days in the hospital and undergoing emergency surgery. His recovery is described as “slow” but progressing.
Hilton, aged 48, took to Instagram on April 7 to update his followers about his health. “After my 21-day hospitalization for severe sepsis, I was readmitted just a few days ago due to a deep vein thrombosis in my right leg,” he shared. According to the Mayo Clinic, deep vein thrombosis is a condition where a blood clot forms in a deep vein, typically in the lower leg or thigh.
Dubbed the “original influencer,” Hilton disclosed that on April 3, his cardiovascular surgeon had to perform a procedure to remove an extensive, fully blocked blood clot. “It stretched from my groin down to just below my calf,” he explained.
Following the thrombectomy, Hilton’s doctor urged him to start walking as soon as possible during recovery. The concern was to prevent blood from coagulating again, which could lead to a recurrence of the same issue.
In a heartfelt update, Hilton shared his emotional journey post-hospitalization. “I’ve been quite emotional lately. Processing everything that’s happened has been intense, but these tears are healing,” Hilton expressed in an Instagram video on April 6. “I came very close to dying during my hospital stay.”
“So I walked, and it was the most excruciating pain of my life,” Hilton confessed. “I was discharged Saturday and had to cancel the beautiful Easter Sunday I had planned, because I was hurting that badly.”
Despite canceling his Sunday, April 5, festivities, Hilton told his followers he is finally feeling better.
“Thank GOD that I can finally walk again — slowly. And, though the pain is still very pronounced, I can tolerate it — and do this all without meds,” he wrote. “Amen!! Every day will get easier and I will get stronger!!! And so it shall be!”
Hilton’s road to recovery has been a long and scary ordeal, starting in March when he was hospitalized following a bout with the flu. Hilton explained in a March 23 Instagram video that after not taking any of his flu medication with food he developed an ulcer, a perforation and sepsis — a serious infection that can result in organ failure.
Perez Hilton can’t hide his gratitude for his health after surviving several scares in 2026. Instead of gossiping about celebrity news, the self-proclaimed “original influencer” has spent the early part of the year documenting the ups and downs of his health as he received medical care near Las Vegas. “March madness indeed!” Hilton wrote via […]
“The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain. I was like, ‘This is weird, but it will go away.’ The next morning, I couldn’t walk,” he recalled. “I had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.”
Five days into his 21-day stay at the hospital, Hilton revealed he underwent laparoscopic surgery.
“[A] surgery where they don’t cut you up, but they miraculously make these incisions … to literally flip around all of my organs,” he explained. “Trying to find the perforation first, then after flipping around all of my organs, washing me out ‘cause I had so much infection in there. So much infection.”
Hilton said his body “kept falling apart” while he was in the hospital, noting that his lungs had to be drained and he had “another major procedure” to try and get the infection out of his system.
Former Sex and the City star Kristen Johnston has called on Perez Hilton to “make amends” to those he has hurt following his recent hospitalization for sepsis. “Many years ago my guts [were] basically ripped open as a result of my longterm abuse of opiates. (I wrote a whole book about it called GUTS),” Johnston, […]
After overcoming sepsis and being discharged from the hospital, Hilton told his followers on Thursday, April 2, that he was rushed back to the emergency room when he experienced soreness and pain in one of his legs.
“I have to have emergency surgery,” he shared via Instagram at the time, noting that an ultrasound confirmed he had a blood clot. “If that blood clot had gone to my lungs or my heart, it could have been real bad.”
Luckily, Hilton said the doctors caught it early and he was hopeful he would be back to himself soon.
He shared a video of himself walking at home with a walker on Tuesday, to confirm he is in fact feeling better. “I can finally walk again!!!” he captioned the video, which concluded with Hilton clapping for the camera.